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I believe Starfield at least was brigading to prove the point that the awards are silly at best at this point.

Did the job pretty well.

It's generally nothing big enough to have heard of unless you're looking into whatever niche it fills.

Only example that comes to mind is mechanical keyboard stuff. For some of the smaller / one-off designs there was a habit of "if you need troubleshooting, here's a discord link" instead of even minimal documentation. For "standard" stuff that used the same lil microcontrollers as everything else just a minor annoyance, but saw it with ones that used custom / no microcontroller too, where even a "you need X diodes, Y sprockets, etc" would've been nice.

Like OP tend to see it and move on and forget about it because it's not worth it. The few times I really wanted to get some service running on a raspberry pi or arduino or whatever and tried the discord was a handful of 'regulars' swapping memes that were annoyed I wasn't intimately aware of their codebase.

Remember when Edison electrocuted a bunch of animals to prove how dangerous AC was? Do you not believe AC can be used correctly?

Nitrogen is one of the methods advocated for by right-to-die advocates for a reason.

Botched execution of the execution are one of the reasons there shouldn't be executions. A bunch of guys "playing it by ear" who want the accused to suffer are not going to do a good job.

Yeah Nintendo tends to move pretty quick on these things. From what I've seen there's not an obvious objection that wouldn't also include things like Digimon.

Guard units are also only under state control until they're not. By the book anyway the DoD(?) can say "okay you're activated under federal orders now, so you are now active duty, do this instead".

The problem with proposing infrastructure is that people hate it. Even if it would be beneficial. Train traffic is limited to 79 mph in the US because the companies in charge were told "put in more safety devices or you're limited to 79 mph", and they said "okay sure".

They usually act like anything that wasn't around when they were born is impossible. I can't imagine trying to get a smoking ban passed now, or capping the national speed limit at 55 because of an oil crisis.

Opera added a user agent header "selector" pretty early so it would tell the webpage it was chrome/IE/Firefox. It was important for compatibility for a lot of websites. I'd trust that listing less for them much less than I would for the bigger/default browsers.

The migration from their own codebase to chromium in 2012/2013 was...rough. They were the first browser to have cross-device synch and you couldn't import bookmarks for a long time, much less RSS feeds/everything else people used Opera for. Their original userbase took a sizeable hit.

Not sure how they could fight manifest v3, it's Google making an (objectively bad) internal code decision that has knock-on effects for Chromium and everyone else.

FWIW they are going to try and keep things working and are looking for workarounds

We should abolish the death penalty.

Pretending no one knows what happens when people breathe pure nitrogen until they die is absolutely ludicrous. Especially because what you're breathing right now is mostly nitrogen.

We know what happens because it happens to mine workers and scuba divers and others by accident. It's pretty pain/panic-less, which is normally why it's such a big deal to try and avoid. It's advocated for as a method by right-to-die proponents because it's so painless. Pretending this is random human experimentation just gives leverage to dismiss the entire argument.

I did the math for me and even with the Amazon credit card the service wasn't worth the price. It's free shipping over ~$25(?) dollars anyway. "Prime shipping" hasn't meant anything significant since at least 2020. It's often the same as non-prime, maybe a day earlier.

If you care about the shows that maybe changes, but they have about 5 and anytime you search for something it's a tossup whether it will be included with your subscription or only available for buy/rent or on some other platform. It's even more fun when there's 'copy' of a movie included with Prime, and another available for buy/rent and and buy/rent version is at the top of the search results and the one you already paid for access to you have to scroll to see.

The single screw version looks wrong somehow.

Their entire business is making things for inmates. Those boots seem to not be steel toe because they're trying to stop metal getting into the prison.

Don't know about them personally but given the industry would be suspicious of the quality. It's likely they're one of the few or only suppliers people can buy things from while incarcerated.

Sync is nice IMO.

Most cities west of the Mississippi river and really anything that's had a growth spurt since about the 1970s/80s. Half of the South there are cities with "historic downtown [this place]" signs all over an area that is slowly deteriorating and basically unused compared to the new main drag that is a freeway with the big box stores and fast food on the side.

Philadelphia was laid out before sprawl and when both parties worked at building stuff instead of being dedicated to tearing down government or being a big tent where everyone can argue with each other.

Would be curious if that's actually the case or if it's just the next iteration of the "organized theft is causing billions in lost profit" from last year that was just BS.

Reality and the current narrative a C-level is pushing to get the result they want ain't always all that similar.

I'd wager they're not talking electronic parts like hard drives, but electronic parts like microcontrollers and capacitors, stuff you solder together. It is pretty good for that in my experience in the US, you just have to know what you want beforehand and be good about reading the descriptions.

I'd also put that as a "nice to have".

I've upgraded my server similarly. But I initially just plugged Unraid into an old (~2012) desktop with a handful of old 1-2 terabyte drives. It's super easy to spread out the cost over time. I just moved machines and it was literally as simple as having all the same hard drives plugged into the new machine.

Ship based piracy absolutely.

Digital piracy:

I remember Kazaa and LimeWire where you hoped the thing you were downloading for hours/days wasn't a virus or a joke meme making fun of you for trusting someone. Getting an entire album of mp3s that were actually the band you hoped for and not missing any songs was a minor miracle.

Now there are dozens of automated tools that talk to each other. I type the name of the movie into a search bar, look through a list of posters and click the 'request' button. It get's torrented in the background and then shows up on my Plex server. If I paid for a usenet group all that could happen an order of magnitude faster.

Search in one place, watch in one place.

It's not quite as instant as streaming, but at this point I have such a back catalogue to work through that that isn't really an issue.

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there's a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for "documentation".

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you're taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn't any.

One of the things that convinced me to go Makita when choosing my "house" was that they don't have separate high and low voltage battery systems. Dewalt, Ryobi, and the others have a 18v/20v system and a 36v/40v system. Makita has bigger tools that you plug two batteries into and by the power of math you have a 36v tool off two of regular batteries.

At least when I was looking that was a unique thing to them and seemed like a great idea.